To Be Determined

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Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.

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Trouble and anguish have taken hold of me. Your commandments are my delight.

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Your testimonies are righteous forever. Give me understanding, that I may live.

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KUF – I have called with my whole heart. Answer me, Yahweh! I will keep your statutes.

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I have called to you. Save me! I will obey your statutes.

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I rise before dawn and cry for help. I put my hope in your words.

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My eyes stay open through the night watches, that I might meditate on your word.

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Hear my voice according to your loving kindness. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your ordinances.

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They draw near who follow after wickedness. They are far from your law.

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You are near, Yahweh. All your commandments are truth.

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Of old I have known from your testimonies, that you have founded them forever.

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RESH – Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

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Plead my cause, and redeem me! Revive me according to your promise.

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Salvation is far from the wicked, for they don’t seek your statutes.

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Great are your tender mercies, Yahweh. Revive me according to your ordinances.

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Many are my persecutors and my adversaries. I haven’t swerved from your testimonies.

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I look at the faithless with loathing, because they don’t observe your word.

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Consider how I love your precepts. Revive me, Yahweh, according to your loving kindness.

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All of your words are truth. Every one of your righteous ordinances endures forever.

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SIN AND SHIN – Princes have persecuted me without a cause, but my heart stands in awe of your words.

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I rejoice at your word, as one who finds great spoil.

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I hate and abhor falsehood. I love your law.

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Seven times a day, I praise you, because of your righteous ordinances.

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Those who love your law have great peace. Nothing causes them to stumble.

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I have hoped for your salvation, Yahweh. I have done your commandments.

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My soul has observed your testimonies. I love them exceedingly.

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I have obeyed your precepts and your testimonies, for all my ways are before you.

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TAV – Let my cry come before you, Yahweh. Give me understanding according to your word.

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Let my supplication come before you. Deliver me according to your word.

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Let my lips utter praise, for you teach me your statutes.

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Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

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Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.

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I have longed for your salvation, Yahweh. Your law is my delight.

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Let my soul live, that I may praise you. Let your ordinances help me.

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I have gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I don’t forget your commandments.

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A Song of Ascents

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In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

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Deliver my soul, Yahweh, from lying lips, from a deceitful tongue.

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What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

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Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.

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Woe is me, that I live in Meshech, that I dwell among the tents of Kedar!

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My soul has had her dwelling too long with him who hates peace.

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I am for peace, but when I speak, they are for war.

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A Song of Ascents.

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I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?

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My help comes from Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

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He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.

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Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

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Yahweh is your keeper. Yahweh is your shade on your right hand.

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The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

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Yahweh will keep you from all evil. He will keep your soul.

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Yahweh will keep your going out and your coming in, from this time forth, and forevermore.

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I was glad when they said to me, “Let’s go to Yahweh’s house!”

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Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem;

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Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

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where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.

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For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

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Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

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For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say, “Peace be within you.”

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For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

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A Song of Ascents.

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To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens.

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Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress; so our eyes look to Yahweh, our God, until he has mercy on us.

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Have mercy on us, Yahweh, have mercy on us, for we have endured much contempt.

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Our soul is exceedingly filled with the scoffing of those who are at ease, with the contempt of the proud.

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A Song of Ascents. By David.

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If it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, let Israel now say,

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if it had not been Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us;

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then they would have swallowed us up alive, when their wrath was kindled against us;

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then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul;

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then the proud waters would have gone over our soul.

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Blessed be Yahweh, who has not given us as a prey to their teeth.

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Our soul has escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare. The snare is broken, and we have escaped.

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Our help is in the name of Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

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A Song of Ascents.

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Those who trust in Yahweh are as Mount Zion, which can’t be moved, but remains forever.

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As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forth and forevermore.

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For the scepter of wickedness won’t remain over the allotment of the righteous; so that the righteous won’t use their hands to do evil.

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Do good, Yahweh, to those who are good, to those who are upright in their hearts.

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But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.

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A Song of Ascents.

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When Yahweh brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

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Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, “Yahweh has done great things for them.”

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Yahweh has done great things for us, and we are glad.

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Restore our fortunes again, Yahweh, like the streams in the Negev.

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Those who sow in tears will reap in joy.

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He who goes out weeping, carrying seed for sowing, will certainly come again with joy, carrying his sheaves.

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A Song of Ascents. By Solomon.

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Unless Yahweh builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless Yahweh watches over the city, the watchman guards it in vain.

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It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.

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Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

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As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

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Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them. They won’t be disappointed when they speak with their enemies in the gate.

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A Song of Ascents.

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Blessed is everyone who fears Yahweh, who walks in his ways.

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For you will eat the labor of your hands. You will be happy, and it will be well with you.

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Your wife will be as a fruitful vine, in the innermost parts of your house; your children like olive plants, around your table.

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Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears Yahweh.

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May Yahweh bless you out of Zion, and may you see the good of Jerusalem all the days of your life.